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Yangzhou Removes Fake “Hades” Place Name but “Coffin Jump” Remains

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After complaints, Yangzhou authorities have deleted the name “阴曹地府” (Hades) from ride-hailing platforms. “棺材跳” (Coffin Jump) is, however, a local place name. Full story via this link.
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Nantong Holds “Forklift Masters” Testing Theory and Practical

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Puncturing balloons and depositing basketballs in buckets were among the tasks assigned to 53 forklift drivers in the championships held on 25 June in Hai’an City. Full story via this link.
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Wuxi opens 2,700 Summer Holiday Parking Spaces in Schools to General Public

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Now with 2.6 million vehicles, increasing annually by 100,000, Wuxi policy also requires government agencies/institutions to make 20 percent of spaces available. Full story via this link.
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Suzhou Sees Work Start on “China’s First Urban High Speed Rail Tunnel”

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Ground has been broken on the entrance to the 11.82-kilometre long Suzhou East Tunnel beside Yangcheng Lake, as part of the new Nantong-Ningbo high-speed line. Full story via this link.
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Is Suzhou-Shanghai the World’s Longest Metro Ride? 94 Stops!

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Turns out it’s six of one and half a dozen of another. That’s the answer to the question, “Is it quicker to take the high-speed train from Suzhou to Shanghai or the metro?”. More accurately, it really depends where...
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Nanjing Drafts Traditional Chinese Medicine Inheritance Legislation

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Cultivating TCM practitioners to inherit the craft and popularising TCM knowledge are the key points in the regs submitted to the Nanjing Municipal People's Congress. Full story via this link.
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Cultural & Tourism Promotion Launched as Nantong Sendi Snow Park Opens

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21 June saw Nantong’s cultural and tourism department seize the holiday window to kick off the 2023 “Summer Fun - Nantong is Waiting for You” promotion season. Full story via this link.
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More People Donate Blood in Changzhou than anywhere in China

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With the national average for blood donors 11.5 per thousand, Changzhou stands tall at 28.6; among the City’s 50,000 blood donors, 720 are rare blood donors. Full story via this link.
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Editor-in-Chief of The Nanjinger, Frank Hossack, is a multi-award winning Radio/TV host and voice-over artist who has worked in China for the past 32 years. Frank has also written for Time magazine, the Wall Street Journal and The Times, appeared on the BBC and LBC, and been cited by CNN, China Daily and the New York Times, among many others.
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